Enterprise Architect

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Job Description:

Enterprise Architect (Solventum)

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
The Enterprise Architect is a key leadership role in the Global IT organization and a driver of business and technology innovation. This role facilitates Enterprise Architecture governance and partners in the modernization of the Enterprise Architecture practice and technology landscape that supports the company’s growth agenda.

The Enterprise Architect is responsible for advancing EA process maturity aligned with the TOGAF framework. This role facilitates the EA team’s activities in designing, documenting, and governing the overall IT architecture. The Architect aligns technology solutions with business strategies, drives use of TOGAF methods to create comprehensive architectural blueprints across all levels of the IT landscape, and collaborates with stakeholders to ensure solutions meet enterprise needs and objectives. The Architect also actively manages the Architecture Review Board, guiding adoption of best practices, improving conformance to standards, and partnering with teams to implement designs that are sustainable and cost-effective throughout their lifecycle.

• Architecture Practice Expansion: Develop and maintain Solventum’s comprehensive enterprise architecture model using TOGAF framework, including business, information, application, and technology layers, encompassing both current state and future roadmap.
• Architecture Governance: Coordinate, create, publish, and measure adoption of architectural artifacts (standards, policies, principles) across technology domains through partnership and facilitation of other Enterprise Architects, Technology Service Owners, and Engineering teams.
• Architecture Reviews: Facilitate the Architecture Review Board and manage the pipeline of architectural reviews, ensuring a responsive process and strengthening engagement of technical teams, business leaders, and program/project managers.
• Solution Architecture: Collaborate with business stakeholders to define and guide the architecture design of enterprise applications including SAP, CRM, MES, R&D, and Quality systems to align with strategic goals of the enterprise and to establish an integrated technology landscape.
• Technology Lifecycle Management: Conduct research and assess new technologies for potential impact on the enterprise architecture, recommending adoption where appropriate and driving technology lifecycle management for implemented technologies.
• Delivery Management: Manage individual architects and architecture teams in the creation and publication of detailed architectural artifacts and technical solutions, assuring on time and on budget delivery.
• Change Management: Facilitate the transition to new architectures by identifying and coordinating change programs that address people, organization, process, and technology considerations.

Your Skills and Expertise 
To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requir